Tanqueray Export Strength London Dry Gin with Indian Tonic water. A left-over bottle from Christmas.
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Tank's good stuff.
Another bottle of beaujolais villages 2009.
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As my missus has still got the hump with me, as she caught me bidding for a Rollei 35 on ebay, she refused to cook for me last night. In fact, I've been on cold rations all week. So I broke out the Imperial Stout to give me some sustenance and then swiftly moved up to a couple of the Compass Box's excellent Artist Blend whisky. With headphones on a Mosaic box set of Stan Getz on Norgran from the early 50s, it was beaming cool jazz all evening and ne'er a cross word was spoken.
A refreshing cold bottle of Badger's "Fursty Ferret".
Hot Bush with ginger, lemon, cloves and soft brown sugar. Flu-banisher!
Hottest day on record here yesterday. I was drinking water.
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39C here.
I drink from my bottle of fizz made by my Soda Stream - sometimes I add some Barley Lemon cordial, sometime I add some Lemon, Lime and Bitters mix and sometimes I just have it straight - cold out of the fridge.
Bottle of fizz gas ran out an hour ago - I must go up to super mart and exchange it.
Rum (only tried Bundy here) & very cold Coke and a dash of peppermint is a great drink.
Very interesting that, I didn't know Bligh had trouble in Australia too.
This week I have mostly been drinking
Wheat beer
Marzen beer
Helles beer
Schank beer
All very nice and reasonably priced. Stiegel, Egger, Gosser, Puntigamer, Edelweiss etc.
"For more than 300 years, from before the days of Admiral Nelson, wooden ships and iron men, the sailors of Britain's Royal Navy were issued a daily ration of rum by the ship's Purser. This tradition, one of the longest and unbroken in the history of the sea, carried forward from the year 1655 to August 1st 1970."
From Pusser's rum website.
There was a fabulous book called by a guy named Kurlansky about the very successful trade route that included picking up cod in Boston and salting it thereby preserving meat for the long voyages, selling it in Africa in exchange for slaves, then in turn exchanging the slaves for Rum in the Caribbean before heading back to the US Eastern seaboard where the Rum and slaves were exchanged for cod and tobacco.
Indeed, it was part of the triangular sail trade route.
Also pretty much the essential fuel of the tiki cocktail lounge bar exotica music craze of the 1950s.
For a drink that has a terrible reputation for sheer jungle horror like hangovers, it's very inert the next day in moderate quantities.
You setting up a Tiki bar with your cassette players and turntables Hepcat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_vTY67Wd9I